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vailed excellence as a succulent food, it is not surpris- 

 ing that the attention of agriculturists is very gen- 

 erally drawn to the subject. 



Mr. Josiah Quincy, Jr., of Mass., long and suc- 

 cessfully engaged in this system of farming, estimates 

 it is said that an acre will, by this method, and with 

 this fodder, support from three to four cows. Mr. 

 D. S. Curtis, of Madison, Wis., has communicated a 

 valuable paper on this subject to the Patent Office 

 Report for 1859, and finds also a like advantage and 

 economy in this practice, even in a section of country 

 where land is cheap and labor is dear. 



The American Institute Farmer's Club have re- 

 corded their opinion that " nothing ever planted or 

 sown for green or winter fodder, will give as much 

 per acre as Indian corn ; " and in the further discus- 

 sion of this subject by the club, Mr. Carpenter added 

 that one of his neighbors last year kept twenty-four 

 head of cattle from the middle of July till frost upon 

 two and a half acres of sowed corn, without exhaust- 

 ing the whole product. He believes that fifteen cows 

 could be well kept upon one acre of corn, by com- 

 mencing to cut it up as soon as it was large enough, 

 or whenever the pasture failed, so as to keep them in 

 a full flow of milk all the autumn. 



The soiling system, when properly conducted, em- 

 braces other grains, grasses, and root crops, as well as 

 Indian corn ; but none of them contribute so largely 

 to its success and profit as the latter ; and for the sim- 

 ple reason that they are none of them capable of 



